CVE-2014-8124

medium

Published 2014-12-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) before 2014.1.3 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 does not properly handle session records when using a db or memcached session engine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of requests to the login page.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2014.1.3-6`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2014.1.3-6`
debian	forky	fixed	`2014.1.3-6`
debian	sid	fixed	`2014.1.3-6`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2014.1.3-6`
suse	13.1	affected
fedora	21	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openstack	horizon	`{"startIncluding":"2014.1","endExcluding":"2014.1.3"}`	`2014.1.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.